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The lonely runner conjecture. As Wikipedia puts it:

Consider $k + 1$ runners on a circular track of unit length. At $t = 0$, all runners are at the same position and start to run; the runners' speeds are pairwise distinct. A runner is said to be lonely if at distance of at least $1/(k + 1)$ from each other runner. The lonely runner conjecture states that every runner gets lonely at some time.

Timothy Chow
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